Effectiveness Reviews: Truly Accountable Monitoring and Evaluation?

There was an interesting blog post by Duncan Green, Strategic Advisor for Oxfam GB (http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/where-has-oxfam-got-to-on-trying-to-measure-the-difficult-stuff-empowerment-resilience-and-learning-from-the-results/) late in 2014 which raises that touchy issue of measuring the ‘hard stuff: empowerment and resilience.’ We all, in some way, encounter this problem in our work. We tend to monitor in numbers, with some qualitative data attached for ‘contextual …

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The Speaker’s Conundrum (Part 2): The Existence of Non-existent Law

Melanie Phillips   Introduction Earlier this year I introduced the Speaker’s Conundrum, a problem which goes as such: Some time ago I was asked by the Speaker of a local government to give legal advice about its Standing Orders. After asking him for a copy of these Standing Orders, I was promptly informed that “oh, …

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